Improvement in detachable horseshoe-calks



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

BUSHROD O. BRADFIELD, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT -lN DETACHABLE HORSESHOE-CALKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,476, dated November 3, 1874; application filed February 7, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BUSHROD O. BRAD- FIELD, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Detachable Horseshoe-(Balk; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing, Figure l is a plan, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section through calk and body of shoe in line y y of Fig. l.

B is my improved horseshoe-calk, having a rear aperture and horizontal lips I) b, the lower preferablya little longer than the upper,

and somewhat thicker. These lips embrace the body E of a horseshoe. dis a bolt passed diagonally from the highest point of the call: through the body E and lip b. The lip b, being comparatively thin, will not be objectionable, while the rivet or pin is out of the way of the hoof, and is yet made to take a good hold upon the shoe.

What I claim is The combination of the shoe E and calk B having flanges b b, and secured by bolt 01 passing diagonally through said calk and shoe, as and for the purpose specified.

B. O. BRADFIELD. Witnesses:

A. P. THAYER, T. B. MOSHER. 

